Poem Analysis Details Part 2

An analysis should include

Poet, genre, context, theme, mood, metre or rhythmic patterns, rhyme scheme, line length (end-stopped lines, enjambment, caesura), sound devices, imagery, figurative devices.

The Rhyme of An Anciet Mariner

The Forsaken: author, context, theme, mood, metre, rhyme scheme, sound devices, imagery, repetition

Poet: Duncan Campbell Scott. Genre: narrative poetry. Context: Indigenous mother. Theme: death and cruelty. Mood: part I harsh, part II peaceful. Metre iambic tetrametre? Rhyme scheme: none Sound devices: onomatopoeia. Imagery: snow. Repetition: valiant, unshaken.

My Last Duchess: poet, genre, context, setting, theme, mood, metre, line lenth rhyme scheme, repetition, imagery

Poet: Robert Browning. Genre: dramatic poetry. Context: Duke of Ferrara negotiating with a messenger of the Count, who’s daughter the Duke plans to marry. He recalls he last wife/”duchess” while looking at her portrait. Setting: Renaissance Italy. Theme: possession, jealousy, pride. Mood: pompous, confusing. Metre: iambic pentameter. Line length: lots of caesura and enjambment. Rhyme scheme: ABAB. Repetition: looking as if were alive, smiling. Imagery: her horse, the setting sun.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: poet, genre, context, theme, mood, metre, rhyme scheme, line length, alliteration, assonance, repetition,

Poet: T.S. Eliot. Genre: dramatic poetry. Context: the thoughts of J. Alfred Prufrock as he desires to go into a room of upper class ladies, but he is embarrassed of himself. Theme: lost identity, insecurity, internal crisis. Mood: anxious. Metre: free verse. Rhyme scheme: occasional couplets. Line length: many quick lines that are often end stopped. Alliteration: w’s in the mermaid stanza. Assonance: open vowels in the mermaid stanza. Repetition: all, Michelangelo, tea, yellow smoke, questions.

in Just- spring: poet, genre, context, theme, mood, metre, rhyme scheme, line lenth, repetition, symbolism,

Poet: E.E. Cummings. Genre: free verse. Context: a description of springtime. Theme: childhood, the call of adulthood. Mood: excited. Metre: free verse. Rhyme scheme: none. Line-length: no punctuation, messy line placement. Repetition: spring, balloon man whistles. Far and wee. Symbolism: childish games like jump-rope, hopscotch, and marbles, symbolise childhood. The “old goat man”’s whistle symbolises the call of adulthood.

I’m Nobody! Who are You?: poet, genre, context, theme, tone, line length, metre, rhyme scheme, irony, sybolism

Poet: Emily Dickinson. Genre: free verse. Context: an anonymous persona speaks to the reader. Theme: the good of being a nobody. Tone: secretive, yet excited. Line length: lots of end-stopped lines. Metre: free verse. Rhyme scheme: ABCB. Irony: the narrator makes themselves somebody by proclaiming themselves as “nobody.” Symbolism: the frogs those who make themselves known, and the bog is the world.

I hear a Fly buzz - when I died:

Poet: Emily Dickinson. Genre: free verse. Context: someone lies on their death bed, but is distracted by a fly. Theme: death, doubt of afterlife. Mood: hopeless. Metre: free verse. Rhyme scheme: none. Symbolism: eyes are her life and vision. When they go “out” so does her faith, because she cannot see.